This is an analysis of the poem Lament Of The Stars that begins with:

One tone is mute within the starry singing,
The unison fulfilled, complete before;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccdccec fffXgghiihi affaXXXXXja XkkfhhkXXkb gffgXeXhhgX dggdgggjXgX akkakkhgghX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101010 0100010101 1101010111 10010101010 0100110100 0100010010 1100110100 1100000101 1101010111 0101110111 110101 01011001010 11110000101 0111010101 10010001100 01000011101 0101110101 11100100101 010100001 1100010001 0101011101 0100111 011001001010 1100010100 0101010011 10110001010 0101010100 1011010100 110101100 010010101000 11111101100 1101010101 0101010 10010101000 11010100100 111000011 11111000010 10110110101 11011100101 1111110101 1101110110 110101010 1001110111 011111 1011110101 110111001110 11110111010 1101010110 01001001000 0101110101 1111011000 0101110011 1100011101 1101011101 010001 01110101110 11010010101 1001010101 01011100110 1101010101 11110110101 0110110011 0111110111 010111100 11001010101 101100 11100101010 0101110000 11000100101 01010101010 0111010101 1111100001 10001011101 0101110101 1011010011 1101110101 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, one, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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